Jax with Shen
How to Synergize Jax and Shen
based on 2,306 Jax with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Jax Shen Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Shen
Tips for Playing as Jax with Shen
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Advice to Understand How Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Jax Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Jax in LoL
The Jax Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Jax sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Jax perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax plays on the same team as Shen, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Shen does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Additionally, when Jax plays with Shen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Shen does a poor job of covering Jax in team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Shen
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Is Jax better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Jax that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Shen is a very typical teammate for Jax. By being on the same team as Jax, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 50.2%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Jax and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Shen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Jax and Shen together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jax in order to pair well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Jax and Shen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Jax combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Shen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Jax players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Shen with Jax are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.